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Maybe people still have to deal with its consequences. The war happened, and it left its ugly mark on the world. But it's [[Noodle Incident|never shown to the audience]] - we [[Take Our Word for It|never see]] a single [[Flash Back]] from the war, are never shown more than just a glimpse of what happened. The war will be referenced, but otherwise left mysterious, unexplained. Why it happened, how it ended, and what all the things that took place there (which people talk about [[Cryptic Background Reference|like it should be obvious]]) actually were, are never explained. The war is only a mysterious event of the past, included mostly to add a bit of mystery and [[Wild Mass Guessing|give people excuses for insane ideas]]. Needless to say, this trope can easily be processed into [[Fanfic Fuel]]
[[World War Three]] is often used as this, as are the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and so on. For that matter, so are the [[World War I|First]] and [[World War II|Second]]. Stories set [[After the End]] have the tendency to do this with the war that caused the apocalypse. If the war never stopped, may be a [[Forever War]].
If said war is going on presently but the characters themselves aren't involved, then it is [[Behind the Black]].
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Please, avoid shows referencing [[Real Life]] conflicts: we have much more information about them than will be ever provided in the typical case of the fictional conflicts mentioned here, so they don't count for the 'mysterious/unexplained' element of the '''Great Offscreen War'''.
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